Frances Bean Cobain

"I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain."-Frances Bean Cobain

Free at last! Free at last! Lord almighty, she’s free at last! When Frances Bean Cobain -- the world’s foremost rock scion -- turned 18 a couple of years ago one of the most grueling custody sagas to hit the public stage finally came to an end. Since the death of her tortured father, Kurt Cobain, and the many maternal failings of her mother, Courtney Love, Frances has been in the media's eyes for a long time. No longer in the midst of a legal tug-of-war between her mother and the family of her late father, Frances Bean Cobain has been enjoying the pleasures of being a legal adult. With her assets no longer controlled by a legally bound guardian, Frances has finally been able to exert control over the publicity rights to her late father's name and image.

SEX APPEAL

At 20, Frances Bean Cobain is a rockstar baby who's just coming into her own. With an edgy photoshoot shot by Hedi Slimane under her belt and a spread in Harper's Bazaar, she's certainly starting to make a name for herself. Lets just hope she continues to avoid the slippery slope of drug addiction and excess traveled by her rock star parents, which is so easily afforded to the offspring of show business royalty. Instead, Cobain should continue to utilize the wealth of artistic talent she surely inherited from the creative powerhouses that are her parents.

SUCCESS

Frances Bean Cobain is pale, but what do you expect after a life spent living in the shadows. Whether it’s the shadow of her father’s intimidating legacy, or the shadow of her mother’s over-the-top public persona, Frances has had little room to breathe on her own. That's changed recently as she finally gained her independence. Apart from a short stint as an intern at Rolling Stone and a famous photo shoot for Elle in which she wore her father’s famous brown cardigan and pajama pants, Frances has essentially shunned the spotlight. Her mother has said in interviews that Frances turned down the roles of Bella in the Twilight franchise, and of Alice in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. If this is in fact true (and who ever really knows with Courtney), then Frances has no real desire to be famous. Instead, it appears as though she’s taking the route of a provocative artist, with her first show, ScumFuck, debuting to rave reviews at L.A.’s La Luz De Jesus Gallery.

Frances Bean Cobain Biography

Frances Bean Cobain was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and was immediately anointed the world’s newest rock princess. Her parents were two of the biggest rock stars on the planet and her godfather is R.E.M frontman Michael Stipe. Kurt Cobain named his daughter after Frances McKee, the guitarist for The Vaselines, and gave her the middle named Bean because he thought she resembled a kidney bean on the ultrasound. Unfortunately, Frances never really got to know her father; he shot himself to death when she was just 20 months old.

frances bean cobain and the death of her father

When Kurt Cobain took his own life in April of 1994, millions of fans had lost their hero. Frances Bean Cobain, however, was the only one who also lost her father. Not even 2 years old when it happened, Kurt was a father she would never really know. The last time Frances saw him was when she visited him in rehab, just months before his death. At his funeral, Frances helped scatter her father’s ashes into McLane Creek in Olympia, Washington, and has been unable to escape her father’s tragic legacy ever since.

frances bean cobain and courtney love’s rocky relationship

After Kurt Cobain’s death, Courtney Love did her best to guard her daughter from the media spotlight. She attended Happy Medium School in Seattle, and aside from a story published in Vanity Fair that accused Love of doing heroin while pregnant with Frances, the young girl lived a fairly private life.

Unfortunately, Courtney Love’s very public battle with addiction left many wondering if she was fit to be a parent, including her dead husband’s biological family. It wasn’t long before the Cobain’s petitioned to gain custody of Frances, an action that laid the foundation for a custody battle that would be waged for the better part of the decade. The conflict between mother and daughter reached a boiling point, with custody of Frances being awarded to Kurt Cobain’s sister and mother, while a restraining order was placed against Courtney, preventing her from even contacting Frances.

frances bean cobain becomes an adult

Finally, after a youth filled with incessant drama, Frances Bean Cobain turned 18 in 2010, and has since been living her life the way she's always intended. No longer pinned down by legal battles, and an elusive inheritance, Frances is officially an adult in the state of California and can do as she pleases. Her first art show was met with rave reviews. Entitled ScumFuck, it debuted at L.A.’s La Luz De Jesus Gallery and featured disturbing sketches of obese and deformed figures.

Frances assumed the pseudonym Fiddle Jim for her show, which marked the debut of a promising young artist. Unfortunately, Frances’ 18th birthday was marred by her mother’s erratic rants via Twitter. With blistering tweets like “Youve done a damned good job frances of destroying anything i could build” and “was that therapist right? Why do you want to ruin my personal life?" Love may have finally damaged her relationship with Frances beyond repair. This rupture was only solidified when Love publicly accused her former husband's bandmate, Dave Grohl, of making sexual advances toward Frances. Frances vehemently denied these accusations and responded with the statement, "Twitter should ban my mother." Lawyers have attempted to wrangle Frances Bean Cobain into a defamatory lawsuit against her mother for making similar comments about a former attorney. A long-time veteran of legal battles, Frances has successfully avoided the subpoena to participate in her mother's latest case as she was able to successfully prove she had no relevant information to offer on her estranged mother.